Podcast #244: The Trivium (Part Two) – Grammar and Logic

This is part two of a series about the Trivium Method for self-teaching. Gene Odening will accompany us through the next three episodes.

Covered today:

GRAMMAR REVIEW: The effect of grammar is to produce primary, or first-order, knowledge of a subject (19:00)
The utility of mythology and the subjective thought process

Law of Non-Contradiction (38:00)
contradictions exist only within the mind of man through the misuse
of free will (misinterpretations). Logic is meant to minimize these misinterpretations.

Truth vs Belief (41:50)
One of the most overused words without an definition attached is "truth"
truth: a proposition in correspondence with objective, factual reality (i.e., a conceptual statement with no innate disagreements)

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2 comments

This whole right brain left brain junk has been scientifically dis-proven for a long time.

Man is not a naturally logical thinker. Psychology has shown us that humans normally emotionally react first, then apply post-hoc rationalize their conclusions. It takes a great deal of effort to deduct instead of induct. This starting point of “ascended man” and innate critical thinking, is disprovable.

That’s not what induction is about in terms of reasoning. Inductive reasoning is more about making a leap of reasoning, an assumption or hypothesis if you will. . It is about inference. It is infering something from what you have so far, instead of deducing something from it.

Yes definitions are catagorical.

I think the trivium is a correct framework or model for critical thinking, but a lot of the “polishing up” and taking care of the “narrative” loose ends of the trivium is done with falsehoods and junk.